Was that it? If that's the quote that got her sacked, I honestly don't see what the big deal is... she started out by saying what a d*ck Hitler was and went on to say that German families were close knit at the time of his rein. Not everything about Germany during Hitler's rule was evil - and not every German citizen was evil either.

I like that she was seeing the good amongst all the bad of that time. Wrongful termination if you ask me!

Just my 2 pennies.

On the other hand there were something fishy about those family values. If the comment was only on family values of any age it would not have cause termination.
At that time if you were married to the wrong person, you could be forced to divorce or face as bad consequences as if you were a convicted felon.
Also: the family values were not terminated. It is completely false to say anything like that. Just look at the family values in DDR and BRD before they got reunited. Kids were first priority, and they were working hard to build the traditionally strong German communities.
If something got fired him, than it was the hint of the false comparison: Those values were good and we do not have them any longer.

I really cracked up when that story emerged yesterday.

Eva Herman has been the biggest laughing stock already since the publication of her first book, "The Eva Principle", last year. That's one really anti-feminist and blimpish piece of writing, too.

The problem with praising Nazi family values in particular is that they were entirely directed to produce plenty of pedigreed offspring for the Fhrer's world empire to come. One can hardly forget about that imperialist and racist aspect Nazi family policy. Hey, Mrs. Herman has been anchor of the Tagesschau. She should have known better.

YAY, double post!
Feel free to upvote this.

While i can understand how sensitive the Germans might feel about Nazism (we in the US have the atom bomb, slavery, Iraq to be sensitive about), I don't believe its right. Speach, when it is oppressed, tends to oppress ideas and with ideas there is no freedom.